- Facebook usage in Asia is increasing quickly with both Indonesia and Malaysia showing significant increases in Facebook use

- In South America Facebook usage is still climbing, with Colombia now leading the way, but also jumps in Facebook usage in Venezuela, Argentina and Chile

- In the battle of the Nordics, the number of Facebook users in Sweden has overtaken the number of Facebook users in Denmark - though Denmark has the world's highest Facebook penetration with around 2/3 of the Danish population classified as active Facebook users

There are now 27 countries with over 1 million people using Facebook. Here are the latest statistics for March 2009 (taken from the Facebook interface):

Hm... 2 million out of 5.5 million isn't anywhere near 2/3. But in any case, it's really interesting reading. It'd be even more interesting if you would recalculate the penetration for the different countries - making a rough estimate in my head isn't quite the same as seeing all the numbers listed.

Your Facebook stats are an eye-opener, Nick. The importance of IT social networking in helping developing countries in Africa out of the swamp of pervasive backwardness cannot be overstated. It is only through continental mass enlightenment that the power of despots can be broken, the rule of law established and sustained and the safety and prosperity of people, fauna, flora and fragile eco-systems be guaranteed. Strength to your bandwidth.

How much actual truth is there in these numbers though? They're provided by Facebook themselves which surely could mean an abusive increase in percentages with advertisement revenue in mind? A point to consider?!

I don't know if you are aware of this, but Iran's government had banned facebook & youtube in recent years,but suddenly from February 2009 people were able to reach those two and the amount of the users boosted up. Do you have any idea how many people are using facebook in Iran before and after the bann? Do you know why do they take off the ban?

You should also include a comparison to the total number of internet user. you will see that a very large number of people are not even online, and it gives you a clearer view where the most potential would be

jeeeesus calm down some of us lıke facebook doesnt mean we dont have lıves maybe means we lıke to share them wıth people we otherwıse wouldnt get to speak to as much. you dont have to go on facebook everyday for ıt to be a useful thıng to be part of, two of my mums good frıends moved to portugal and to phone them would cost her the earth so ı made her a facebook and now she goes on there occasıonaly to talk to them. faır enough ıf you got bored of facebook just dont sneer at us that stıll love ıt!

Gautam - I periodically pull figures from the Facebook interface and post them, but the Facebook interface updates regularly, therefore the figures change. The figures posted here are from March, Techcrunch article you highlight is more recent - hence the difference. I have posted more up to date figures on later posts.

hi Nick, its great to know such statistics.u are doing great job.can you please provide the facebook user statistics for Nepal.thank youhave good weekend.and befor i leave one Qwho has more fans Michael jackson or Barrack Obama?

Nice post about Facebook usage. I just wrote an article summing up a whole bunch of different studies and surveys about Facebook addiction, the concept of frenemies, and why depression and other things affect heavy social media users.

Here’s the link if you want to check it out:http://wp.me/p1fNJu-cv

We’re also conducting a survey on Facebook usage, check it out here:http://bit.ly/h7lu7t

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